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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks Nancy - very good of you to send me this!</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It took a while to digest it all but I think from the info therein <br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the bees are Tri-coloured Bees. Bombus tenarius.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was out on the shore today and saw a number on the asters.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Not like Monday but a good number. I also saw a Monarch Butterfly<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">it went over a pond heading south!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks again for the info.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the fall<br/></span>
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They would like photos anytime.  You can take part in the bee census in the summer.  There is a handy chart on the website. The bumble bees with orange on the abdomen are tenarius, huntii and rufocinctus.  One would really need to take a few photos from various angles to distinguish among them. 
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday was a great day for a paddle<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">so a friend and I done 2 lakes.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">When we got back and were putting the canoe away we<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">noticed the aster flowers along the bank. The flowers were buzzing<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">with bees. Perhaps a couple of dozen in each large clump.<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">The first impression was someone had a few hives of honey<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">bees in the area so we went to look close. But mostly they<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">were the native tri-colored bees - with the beautiful orange rump.<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">My guess was Bombus terricola - but I'm no expert. No doubt the<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">it must have been a good hatch year for them. There was a few<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">high over the lake. As I watched, it folded its wings and dove down like<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">an Osprey. Fast. Something in the water must have got its attention.<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">A little above the water it put on the brakes and just over the water <br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">saw an eagle do that before.<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">The color was great - the maples and other trees along with the bushes<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">on the little islands. The Pitcher Plants were in great color - sort of a purple<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">red. And very numerous. Lots of turtles and mallards!<br/></strong></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-weight: 400;">Enjoy the fall - visit a swamp!<br/></strong></span>
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